Mail not recognizing servers

I have an iMac G4, recently updated to 10.4.4 (big error?). The last two days, several of our Mail accounts (I have 5) either gave me the "offline" tilde when I brought the program up, or it worked fine. Manually going on line and "get new mail" would usually work - occasionally would return to offline status. Rebooted. That account was fine - another went "offline". Both were earthlink.net accounts. Today, those worked fine. Looked like we were home free, and then Mail won't recognize our .mac account - says "account not on server." When I go, via Safari, to .mac, our account is there, accessible, etc. Is this an issue with 10.4.4? Before upgrading, we were just fine. If so, how do I get BACK to 10.4.3? thanks.

An update:
Last night, after a frustrating few hours, I shut the mail program down for the night. This morning, all is well. It recognizes .mac, it keeps all my accounts on line. Solar flares? Sun spots? gremlins???
Anyway, I see by the discussion threads there are a few others with similar problems. I'll keep watching.

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